Re: Building out of multiple tags

[Todd Denniston]

gounder27 wrote, On 05/27/2008 12:18 PM:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to CVS (have used clearcase quite a bit). Can we checkout files
> from multiple tags. Like for example, if I have 10000 files tagged
> "may_release" and out of those 10000 files, I have 100 files which also have
> tag called "patch1". 
>
> Can I tell CVS to checkout files with tag "patch1" and if "patch1" is not
> present, checkout files with tag "may_release"?

sort of:
cvs tag -rmay_release patch1
cvs tag -F patch1 ListOf100Files
cvs checkout -r patch1

> I don't want to label all the 10000 files as "patch1" because for patch1, we
> only modified those 100 files. 
>
> In clearcase, this is very easily done through an appropriate config file. I
> hope it is possible in CVS also.
>
> thanks
> Gounder27


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